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KYW Eyewitness News At 11 June 16, 2014

We start with breaking news tonight. A flight from philadelphia to frankford germany makes an expected landing back at Philadelphia International airport. Airport officials tell Eyewitness News flight 427 did not declare an emergency. The plane landed safely and no one was hurt. Its still unclear why the flight returned. Were told the flight has now been canceled. The airline is trying to accommodate the passengers so well continue to work to get more details and bring them to you as soon as they become available to us throughout the night. Also, tonight, a Neighborhood Block Party interrupted by a shooting and the violence leads police to open fire on a suspe suspect. Good evening everyone im natasha brown. Thanks so much for joining us. Families were out and about just trying to enjoy a warm sunday afternoon, when this shooting took place. It was a very chaotic scene in the 3200 block of North Randolph street in fair hill. Eyewitness News Reporter Elizabeth Hur is live outside of police headquarters. Shes got the very latest details. Liz . Reporter natasha, two suspects were taken to the hospital. One after being shot in the arm. The other we are told he was shot multiple times and at last check was listed in critical condition. And police say the officer involved was not hurt. Bullets fly in the middle of a block. Its crazy out here. Reporter where families including children were out enjoying a beautiful fathers day afternoon. I mean people just dont ca care. Reporter according to police, the gunfire broke out in the 3200 block of randolph street. Preliminarily were told the initial incident involved three men, two of them opened fire. The circumstances remain under investigation but were told at some point a responding officer assigned to the 25th district discharged his weapon possibly striking two of the suspects. Police say the suspect tried to run away but just one block over one was found collapsed in the middle of the street. Another inside a home on fair hill street. Two were taken to the hospital. Police say the third suspect was taken into custody. We cant keep the kids outside because, you know, we dont know whats going to happen. Reporter the neighbors we talked to afraid of retaliation asked that we dont use their names. But with Young Children in their homes, they agreed to talk to us calling the shooting senseless. We always celebrating on the block. We always do block parties. We always we have fun cook outs and we cant do it. With all these shoot outs. Reporter and police say their work here is continuing at this time theyre notary loosing any names or a motive but again preliminarily at least according to an official at the scene, police right now are looking into the possibility that both of suspects injured may have been shot by police. That is the very latest from here, im Elizabeth Hur cbs3 Eyewitness News. Liz, thank you very much. Also, tomorrow morning commuters will be able to take septa Regional Rails to and from work. This after a brief strike over the weekend. Last night president obama created an emergency board at the request of Governor Court forcing Union Workers back on the job. The two sides will now participate in hearings starting the week of june 23rd. The board will then give a recommendation to the president on july 14th. Eyewitness News Reporter syma choudhry has more. Reporter this train has come to a halt but the service hasnt. Septa Regional Rail lines are back on track after a short work stoppage. The strike started saturday at midnight but president obama signed an executive order last night appointing an emergency board to mediate the labor dispute and ordering the union back to work. Had the president not gotten involved, all 13 Regional Rail lines would have stopped servi service. People need to get places like come on. This is ridiculous report roar this strike was the first in 31 years. The last septa Regional Rail strike was in 1983 and lasted for more than three months. More than 400 engineers and electrical workers have had a long running labor dispute with septa. Now, septa officials and Union Workers will be forced to go back to the table that will be mediated by the president s emergency board. We will certainly comply with the mandates of the law, and we will be given the opportunity to present our best case to the president ial emergency board. Report engineers and electrical workers have to work for the next eight months which Means Service could not be disrupted before february. That would give 240 more days of discussing this one issue and then after that point, if we cant come into agreement, then there will again be another work stoppage. Reporter the weekend strike lasted for about 24 hours. Now, during the weekday there are about 60 thus san people that rely on the Regional Rail line service and many of them are happy that service is back to normal especially in time for their monday morning commute. At the fern rock transportation center, im ma choudhry, cbs3 Eyewitness News. All the dads out there couldnt have asked for better day this fathers day the weather was just beautiful. Hope you had a Great Fathers day its really going to start feeling like summer as we head into the work week. Meteorologist Justin Drabick joining us now with the first check on the forecast. Did i see 90s in there, justin . Thats right. It would be the first time this season here in philadelphia if we do hit 90 degrees. How about that . Very pleasant though this weekend yesterdays highs were in the 70s. Today right on average. We made it to 83 at the airport. The record high for this date 100 degrees in 1994. Were not going to get that hot. Doesnt look like well be breaking any records. But we are going to turn the heat up a little bit as well as the humidity over the next few days. Still pretty warm right now. 65 in allentown. 73 at the airport. 62 in millville. Humidity levels still low currently so somewhat comfortable look at that 59 in quakertown. 63 in pottstown not a bad finish to the weekend. Nice and dry on storm scan3. Patchy clouds role on in during the overnight hours. High pressure remains in control keeping us dry. Monday morning temperatures low 60s maybe 50s in the suburbs we rebound new nicely High Temperatures will go well above average on monday. Well talk about that high humidity and the 90degree temps im show the seven day in few more minutes. Natasha . Also, new tonight, more sightings of a black bear roaming around burlington county, inform. There have been multiple sightings roared in evesham township just in the past week. Police sent out this picture of a bear on thursday. It was seen in the Sanctuary Development before going back into the woods on its own. This Morning Police say a bear was spotted near the Fire Department so its still unclear if this is the same black bear wandering around. Also new information tonight about that deadly fire in newark, new jersey, that killed six people including a 15 year old. Police say the teenager was on a fathers day visit to honor this deceased dad when he, his mother and four others perish in the fire. The blaze broke out in one house, quickly spread to anoth another. Everyone in the second house managed to escape. The cause does remain under investigation tonight. And security is tightening in baghdad after stream mist militants threaten to storm iraq pogs capitol city and now president obama is considering taking military action. Cbs news correspondent windy gillette has more now from new york. Reporter baghdad is under a night curfew and tight security as an Islamic Terrorist Group threatens to overtake the city. The us is evacuating some employees from its embassy. 100 marines and soldiers will guard the building. The Extremist Group Islamic State of iraq and syria or isis taken control of several areas in northwest iraq. On sunday it claimed responsibility for at least one of several explosions that rocked bag bad killing at least 19. Isis took Terror Campaign to social media releasing Graphic Photos and claiming militants executed 1700 iraqi soldiers. A claim that cannot be verified. But the government is fighting back. Prime minister nori al maliki addressed some of his troops vowing to liberate any territory captured by i sis. Iraqi military conducted air strikes sunday against some i sis targets. President obama is considering possible military action. If you use air power you can kill civilians if baghdad gets infected with these guys and the government collapses thats the worst case scenario. My first thing recommend to the president get your Intelligence Group back on track making sure we have the intel we need for whatever options we have that are going to be accurate. State department is warning americans to avoid all non search travel to iraq. Wendy gillette, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Remembering the king of the top 40 countdown. Broadcast legend casey kasem died today after a long disease with parkinsons disease an and dementia. He was 82 years old. Keep your feet on the ground. Long time personalities reflected on his legacy. His voice was unique in the early years he was turned down by Many Program Directors because they thought didnt have radio voice. Because he didnt have that base see sound. As they say. From his time period. But he proved them wrong, didnt he . Its not how heavy you are. Its how long youre heavy so casey kasem was the heavy weight in his unique format in the business for not decades but generations. In recent years kasem was at the center of a bitter family feud between his second wife and his children from his first marriage. Kasem is survived by four children. Stay with us. Still ahead a mom who says she and her daughter were humiliated on flight from new york to boston is now getting an apology that shes been asking for. Well tell you why jet Blue Airlines is now saying sorry. Plus a memorable trip for two local world war ii veterans well have more on this remarkable story of honor and bravery justin. After pleasant weekend across the Delaware Valley get ready for hire heat and humidity for the work week. Ill have the complete details. And straight ahead in sports the phillies and cubs finishing up their weekend series. Can the offense put up some runs for another win . Find out when we come back. Stay with us. From color. To the remote. To flat screens. Now its taking a quantum leap. Introducing fios quantum tv. Record up to 12 shows at the same time. Store up to 200 hours of entertainment in hd. Plus watch live tv anytime with the fios mobile app. Redefining what tv can be. Thats powerful. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v welcome back everyone. Massachusetts mom receives an apology from jet Blue Airlines after a Flight Attendant refused to let the womans daughter use the restroom. Jennifer devereaux was traveling with her two daughters on flight from new york to boston. The plane was delayed on the runway. Devereauxs three year old needed to go to the bathroom. But they werent allowed out of their seats. The child couldnt hold it and went in her seat. Devereaux says shes happy now that jet blee did the right thing. She said, you know, im a mom, too, i totally understand what youre going through. Im so sorry this happened to you. I dont care about a voucher. You know, that kind of stuff doesnt really matter to me, but i did want an apology to my family because we felt like we were mistreated and melt awful about it. Jet blue says its employees will undergo sensitivity training. The airline meantime also offered the familiar al 50 credit and five thus san dollars to be given to charity of their choice. Olympic champion swimmer amy van dyke ruin is out of intensive care and in a regular hospital room. Nine days ago she severed her spinal cord in all Terrain Vehicle accident she was left paralyzed her family says its unclear if she will remain that way. The 41 year old won four gold medals at the 1996 atlanta olympics and two more in sidney before retiring. Also a Pennsylvania State trooper had was paralyzed in a car crash is given new mobility thanks to very generous gift. Trooper gene, of york county received an 18,000 alter ryan wheelchair that allows her to move in a standing position. The dealer of the wheelchair has donated them before to veterans but this is the first time one has been given to a First Responder in pennsylvania. I dont think in the lifetime i could repay them for this. I dont think i could repay anybody for this in lifetime. This is one i cant pay back. I just got to figure out how to pay it forward. Jean says shes looking forward to going fishing and camping with her new wheelchair. Well, two residents of a Montgomery County Retirement Community recently traveled to france to commemorate the 70th anniversary of dday. For the vets it was a visit filled with bittersweet memories of patriotism and honor. Our Steve Patterson sat down and spoke with them about this memorable trip. Reporter they are a rare breed. Symbolically, figuratively, literally. It was just something we all did and we all came home and we were all quiet. Reporter of the 16 million americans who fought in world war ii, a little over a million are left. Bill nutley and herb levy are more rare. Not only did both fight in the war, they both survived the dday invasion which means they both have liberate france, bury friends, nearly died and have as many stories in their heads as they do medals on their chest. To say i wasnt frightened would be a lie. Of course, we were frightened. Reporter they both now live in the same gwynned retirement home. Both getting back from france where they were two of 200 honored in front of 15,000 and several heads of state. Despite all of that when you ask bill and herb about the war and returning to france nearly 70 years after the occupation and invasion the its the not the people they latch on, not events, but objects. There was dead silence listening to those bell rings. Just ill never forget that. Reporter nor nutley its bells. Former infantry men award add bronze star and purple heart went back to the town of saint low a place once wiped off the map by nazi germany now rebuilt, thanks to part to his unions her row wick. He described the church bells which rang out all at once when he came back. It pulls at your heart. I started to tear up just thinking of it. Reporter take look at this when herb went back he discover this bridge Still Standing not only as a monument to what was done there, but still functioning. Its still the most exciting thing. I mean it could have gone down two days after i walked away from it for all i knew. Reporter herb the retired architect penn grad and Army Engineer calls it a standing miracle and says the supply bridge in this picture is actually the third built by his unit when he came back the towns mayor personally awarded him medal. Remember, forgive, but dont forget. Reporter in gwynned, Steve Patterson, cbs3 Eyewitness News. Thousand spent this father days running for a very important cause. Eyewitness news along the ben franklin parkway for the 12th annual gary papa run. The 5k raises money for Prostate Cancer awareness and research. Every year nearly 200,000 american men are diagnosed with Prostate Cancer and an estimated 27,000 will die from that disease. Beautiful day for a run today. Just a beautiful fathers day. Couldnt have asked for better day. Exactly. Im sure a lot of fathers out on the golf course. Opinion nicking a great day. Well crank up the heat this week. It is mid june. About that time. Yeah. Well make a run at 90 degrees but still very pleasant outside right now. Heres how it looks at center city. Looking at the ben franklin bridge. Pretty quiet. Just a few clouds. Its still warm. Levels are low. Keep the windows open. Compared to last night at this type its much warmer. Almost a little bit on the cool side yesterday at this time. But now were 9 degrees warmer this time yesterday in philadelphia. Eight in allentown. Eight in reading. So thats the sign of that warmer air moving on in coming in slowly. 73 still at the airport. 68 reading. 65 allentown. So some nice comfortable temperatures for the suburbs again some spots could dip down into the 50s again. The dew point temperatures which tells how much moisture is in the atmosphere gauges our humidity levels still very low. For the middle of june. Were in the low 50s. You dont see that a whole lot this time of year. Again the dew point measures how much moisture is in the atmosphere the higher the number the more humid it is. Currently were at 53 degrees. Thats comfortable. Tomorrow we start to bring it up to about 60 degrees. So what does that mean to you . Its still not bad. But youll start to feel the diss its really once you get about 65 or higher thats when you really start feeling the humidity and once you hit 70 thats when its oppressive it looks like well see dew point temperature in the lows as we head into tuesday, wednesd

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